Dante C. Youla

{{Short description|American electrical engineer (1925–2021)}}

Dante C. Youla (October 17, 1925 – August 13, 2021) was Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University.{{Cite web | url=http://archive.poly.edu/catalog/_doc/academic_departments/ece.pdf | title=Department of electrical and computer engineering | access-date=2024-06-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329075609/http://archive.poly.edu/catalog/_doc/academic_departments/ece.pdf | archive-date=2012-03-29}} He has made fundamental contributions to the areas of Circuit theory, analysis and synthesis; Communication theory; microwave systems and control theory.{{cite web |title=Dante C. Youla |url=https://www.arthurfwhite.com/obituary/Dante-C-Youla |publisher=Arthur F. White Funeral Home, Inc |access-date=31 August 2021}}{{Cite web |url=http://mechatronics.ece.usu.edu/ece7360/Weekly_Readings/W07_0003youl.pdf |title=Youla et al: Modern Wiener-Hopf Design (1976) (see bio on last page) |access-date=2011-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820213740/http://mechatronics.ece.usu.edu/ece7360/Weekly_Readings/W07_0003youl.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-20 |url-status=dead }}

The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society awarded him the Vitold Belevitch Award in 2005.{{cite web |url=http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/belevitch-award |title=Belevitch Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE Circuits and Systems Society |accessdate=November 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310000956/http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/belevitch-award |archive-date=March 10, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

In 1988 he received the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award, "for original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems".{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234827/http://ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 19, 2010 |title=IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=January 13, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |title=IEEE Control Systems Award |publisher=IEEE Control Systems Society |accessdate=January 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |archivedate=December 29, 2010 }} And Youla received in 1965 the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, for his paper "A New Theory of Broad-Band Matching".{{cite web |url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/baker_rl.pdf |title=IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629020810/http://www.ieee.org/documents/baker_rl.pdf |archivedate=June 29, 2011 }} The Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory is named after him.